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Weekend Butler: Covid Roulette. Three idiots, living the dream. Going to school with my daughter. A short beach novel that’s smart and hot.
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Published: Aug 26, 2021
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THE WEEKLY RANT: COVID ROULETTE
I know people — smart, accomplished, respected — who aren’t vaccinated. Some have told me why. They have “better facts” than scientists like my brother, who works on vaccines and is a great deal smarter than his sibling. They’re champions of natural immunity — translated, what they’re essentially saying: “The vaccine doesn’t guarantee you won’t get sick, it really only stops you from dying.” When the vaccines somehow allow a few people to die, they point that out, like: This didn’t have to happen. Over time, I saw something horrifying in their messaging: Every time a vaccinated person died, they were sneering. Like ghouls. Cheerleaders for death. If I have a wish for them, it’s that vaccination cards are mandatory everywhere and they, like others who resist the worldwide conspiracy to turn us all into sheeple, are effectively under house arrest for the duration.
Other unvaccinated people worry me more, because they don’t boast about it. I’m not a kid anymore. I’m infused monthly with a $75,000-a-year drug that makes me forget I ever had asthma. I’ve had two shots and will get a booster. And as the summer ends and some of my world returns to the city, I’m invited to a few events. The hosts and guests aren’t kids. Some surely have health issues that make them vulnerable to the variant. What if I enter a crowded room and there is someone there just starting to feel ill? She/he can’t kill me. But he/she can certainly cost me a few days in bed and a possibly weakened immune system. And if nothing happens? I’ve wasted time looking around the room and wondering: Is it you? Or you? And why have I trashed my better self with this unworthy speculation? Because someone had to be the boss of him/herself. Because someone basically doesn’t give a shit about other people. Truly, it’s more important for them to be right, even if it kills them. Covid Roulette.
That’s not the worst. There’s a special hell reserved for people who oppose mask mandates for kids. As we’ve seen, it’s not about masks. It’s not even about kids. It’s about “freedom.” Which matters more than kids. Bluntly, kids don’t matter… even if they’re your own. Think of it as the Exodus story, flipped: Pharoah condemns his own child.
LIVING THE DREAM
On August 15, 2021 at around 9 PM, Mobile County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting that occurred at a home. Two men had been shot and both were being transported to a local hospital to treat their injuries.
The victim and homeowner, Frank Reeves, was shot in the chest by Michael Amacker, according to MCSO. Reeves then shot Amacker multiple times, striking him in the lower leg and elbow.
During the investigation, MCSO detectives discovered that the homeowner’s wife, Tracy Reeves, alerted her husband that an intruder was inside their home. It was later discovered that Tracy knew the intruder and had been having a relationship with him for over a year. Tracy was also allowing Amacker to live inside the home, providing him food, and more. Frank Reeves had no knowledge of Amacker staying inside his home, according to MCSO.
Currently, the charges for Amacker are attempted murder, possession of controlled substance, possession of firearm with altered serial number. Amacker is a convicted felon and ICE charges are forthcoming.
My favorite detail: “providing him with food, and more.”
WEEKEND READING: A SHORT BEACH BOOK FOR READERS WHO LIKE LOVE COMPLICATED AND SEX REAL
And she published it when she was 18. Click here.
CHARLIE WATTS: A MUST-READ
Everyone and his/uncle has done the public mourning thing. This is something else: intimate, personal, essential stories, short and to the point. You’ll share this link.
GOING TO SCHOOL WITH MY DAUGHTER
We play Scrabble a few nights a week. After she wins, she educates me. Lucky for me — she knows hip hop and rap the way I know Dickens. Many videos to share, but let’s start here. Kid Cudi had an idea for a song. Dot Da Genius knew how to give it layers. He “only” had 24 tracks to work with. Note: The Beatles didn’t make 8-track recordings until 1968, that is, after “Sgt. Pepper.” As my daughter would say, “Watch and learn.”
A WAY TO FIX THE AMERICAN HEALTH SYSTEM YOU WON’T FIND IN A TIMES OP-ED
Pamela Miles is an internationally renowned Reiki master and the foremost pioneer introducing Reiki practice to conventional medicine. She’s treated my family, on and off, for decades. Here’s her piece. Here’s her book.
THE BEAUTY PART: JOHN O’DONOHUE
John O’Donohue. If you haven’t read him, start here.
“I remember as a child that whenever my father left home he always paused at the door and inhaled a last deep breath before he went out. No one ever commented on this; nor was it ever explained. But it was as if he wanted to inhale some of the spirit of the family before he left us. It is for me a poignant image of leavetaking, the fragility and contingency of love.”
HELP WANTED
I’m ambivalent about asking, but here goes…
– I’ve invented a business connected to the fastest-growing product/activity in the country. There’s an obvious niche that has been ignored. This would fill it. I registered the idea. I bought the URLs. And I have no interest in launching a start-up. I’m looking for someone who wants to take it over. I’d get a cut. Find that person, and so would you.
– I’ve got a concept for a streaming show-with-website that has a dozen people saying, “You need a showrunner.” Just so. Find a showrunner, take a cut.
I’m at HeadButlerNYC@AOL.com. Thanks.
